In some examples, a system includes a Fibre Channel (FC) interface to communicate over an FC network, and a network stack including a network layer and a transport layer. Machine-readable instructions are executable to produce a command packet including a payload including data for transmission to another system, the payload further including headers for the network layer and the transport layer, where the command packet is according to a storage interface protocol. The FC interface is to communicate the command packet over the FC network.
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9. The method of claim 8, wherein the layers of the system that enable communication over the FC network comprise the storage interface protocol layer in the user space, the FC driver in the user space, and the hardware FC interface.
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